Vision Statement
To create a series of digitally composed photographic vistas, which will form visual essays about the spaces we inhabit.
The area of Stoke-on-Trent has been choosen as the primary location for this work. It is a place close to the artist's home. It is important to note that all the images used in the digital composites are actual photographs; a form of reportage. Although heavily reliant on computer technology, the work needs to be read as photography and not as virtual reality. The following themes are of central concern to this project:
i) The juxtaposition of architectural styles. Once the viewer understands the arrangement of a series of buildings have been contrived, they are challenged to reason whether it was an architect or the artist who placed such buildings together.
ii) The way in which we populate urban spaces. Documenting the social landscape has been a huge concern for the visual arts throughout history.
iii) The nature of photography as reportage. The work addresses one of those notions which seems to be propagated by the minds of the populous; 'the camera never lies'. Why so? The phrase is blatantly untrue as people like Joseph Stalin tried so hard to prove. And now with the advent of digital image manipulation, the challenge to accept photography as a testimony to the truth should have never been so difficult.
Aims and objectives
To have an opportunity for public comment through series of works that comment on a contemporary social landscape.
To develop a project that will result in a series of works that have a depth of enquiry and resolution so as to allow the work to be reinterpreted numerous times as the layers of coding are stripped away.
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